morsi clearly faced challenges. many of these judges are mubarak holdovers, determined to create common balance. any judiciary would in a democracy, to ascribe to the my way or the highway approach. morsi was testing to see what in fact, he could get away with. the up shot of course is that in this dysfunctional political system you have a kind of democratic anti-democratic ticktock which is going to at least for the moment compromise legitimate institutions of governance and create tremendous suspicion on the part of seculars, the liberals and the military that morsi does in fact have a much longer and for authoritarian agenda. >> eliot: the timing, the moment that morsi is getting praised internationally. they're saying he's pragmatic and reasonable. then he responds by this decree. it expects to me that he was not expecting the domestic push back. he thought he had a window internationally, but then he had a push back where he least expected it, which is in the street. >> there is no question about that. the diff